In this two-part lesson, students will learn about Agnes Baker Pilgrim, who, before her death at the age of 95, was the oldest living member of the Takelma Tribe in Oregon. Through her story as an Indigenous woman, students will learn about stigma and discrimination in Oregon history as well as the current day. They will also identify things that they can do to help fight against discrimination when they see it or experience it.This is designed as a two-part lesson with content in Lesson 1 offering a foundation for Lesson 2.  The lessons are designed to be taught together while although each could be standalone if preferred.

This page contains information, recordings, and transcriptions materials that I collected during two research trips to Bolivia and Peru. The common theme for these trips was Indigenous voices and representation. Here, I visited indigenous groups as well as had different discussions and presentations with different academics and social activist in these two countries. I hope that the information and materials here are helpful to everybody that visit this page. Click on the links below to access the materials per country.
If you use any of this information for a class, please feel free to share your lesson plan with me so that I can post it. In this way, other instructors/teachers/professors can also use these materials. The goal is to make all of these materials and lesson plans accessible.

Here are the recordings of the interviews, talks, and different explanation of some traditions and stories*, **. Each section is divided by subject as well as location.
The recordings are number for ease of access.
The transcripts for each recording can be found at the end of this page, inside the file folders.
*This data collection was possible thanks to the Fulbright Hays Group Abroad Projects (2016) funding with Oakton College.
**The sub-section of High Andes within the "Interviews and Talks" section was collected thanks to the LACC's US Department of Education Title VI Grant (2023) funding with FIU.

This OER showcases the use of tools such as twitter, blogs, and other forms of social media, as a project for increasing cultural awareness in the classroom. These tools create spaces in the classroom for culturally responsive engagement between Native and non-Native students. Using contemporary indigenous activism as the focus of a semester-long project, I will discuss the steps taken to enable students to explore contemporary Native issues from indigenous perspectives. The ‘real-time’ environment of social media enables the students to engage with multiple indigenous perspectives in a pro-active, rather than passive, manner. The OER will also show how this exploration leads to increased student intellectual awareness and engagement with the indigenous world around them.